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Developing Cancer

Poorest nation's face a heavier burden from the disease, new global resources shows

The Burrill Report

“Striking differences in the patterns of cancer from region to region are observed.”

Developing countries are facing a heavier cancer burden with a majority of the 12.7 million new cases of cancer in 2008 and 7.6 million cancer deaths worldwide occurring in these parts of the world, according to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. A recently adopted resolution of the U.N. General Assembly called for action to address the increasing trends in premature deaths from non-communicable diseases worldwide, with a particular focus on developing countries.
 
Assuming underlying rates of cancer will remain unaltered over the next two decades, GLOBOCAN 2008 projects that by 2030, there will be almost 21.4 million new cases diagnosed annually and that there will be over 13.2 million deaths from cancer.
 
The data is drawn from GLOBOCAN 2008, a new online resource developed by the agency to provide comprehensive data on cancer throughout the world. GLOBOCAN 2008 provides worldwide estimates of the numbers of new cases of, and deaths from, cancer for 2008. Information is provided for the overall burden of cancer and for 27 specific cancer types for almost all countries or territories of the world.
 
The data show that 56 percent of new cancer cases and 63 percent of cancer mortality occurred within developing nations in 2008.
 
Lung cancer was the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide with 1.6 million cases or 12.7 percent of the total. It was followed by breast cancer (1.38 million or 10.9 percent) and colorectal cancers (1.23 million or 9.7 percent).
 
Lung cancer also proved to be the number one killer among cancers with a total of 1.4 million deaths or 18.2 percent of all cancer deaths attributed to it. Stomach (.74 million or 9.7 percent) and liver cancers (.69 million or 9.2 percent) also were among the deadliest forms of the disease.
 
“Striking differences in the patterns of cancer from region to region are observed,” says Christopher Wild, director of IARC. “Cervix and liver cancers are much more common in developing regions of the world, whereas prostate and colorectal cancers are more common in developed regions.”







 Country Rate
 Gaza Strip and West Bank 54.86
 Syrian Arab Republic 71.85
 Namibia 78.30
 Sudan 81.55
 Botswana 85.68
 Niger 86.44
 Tanzania 87.23
 Saudi Arabia 87.61
 United Arab Emirates 88.85
 Uzbekistan 89.21
 Central African Republic 89.74
 Equatorial Guinea 90.52
 Congo, Republic of 90.68
 Congo, Democratic Republic of 90.75
 Cote d Ivoire 90.88
 The Gambia 91.31
 Yemen 91.83
 Gabon 91.88
 Cameroon 92.13
 Oman 92.39
 Solomon Islands 92.93
 Samoa 93.13
 Chad 94.17
 Angola 95.70
 Eritrea 95.76
 Djibouti 97.98
 Tajikistan 98.29
 India 98.50
 Lesotho 99.37
 Liberia 101.19
 Comoros 101.49
 Togo 101.55
 Morocco 101.88
 Sierra Leone 102.68
 Mauritania 102.99
 Swaziland 103.08
 Cape Verde 103.13
 Senegal 103.14
 Benin 103.29
 Burkina Faso 103.92
 Guinea-Bissau 103.94
 Iraq 104.85
 Algeria 105.77
 Ethiopia 107.15
 Afghanistan 107.19
 Iran, Islamic Republic of 107.29
 Egypt 108.39
 Ghana 109.46
 Western Sahara 109.79
 Mauritius 110.50
 Sri Lanka 110.99
 Libya 111.27
 Guinea 111.59
 Nigeria 111.71
 Somalia 113.48
 Vanuatu 113.85
 Pakistan 114.72
 Belize 115.02
 Philippines 116.09
 Qatar 116.85
 Kuwait 117.20
 Mali 119.99
 Bolivia 121.91
 Tunisia 121.94
 Jordan 123.03
 Mozambique 123.51
 Burundi 124.52
 Bangladesh 124.85
 Bhutan 126.57
 Rwanda 126.84
 Georgia 127.86
 Mexico 128.41
 Fiji 128.86
 Bahrain 129.60
 Korea, Democratic Republic of 130.32
 Turkmenistan 132.56
 Kenya 132.84
 Cambodia 133.06
 Haiti 133.79
 Madagascar 135.02
 El Salvador 135.87
 Viet Nam 138.67
 Papua New Guinea 139.04
 Nicaragua 140.18
 Zambia 140.82
 Nepal 141.61
 Malaysia 142.87
 Indonesia 143.53
 Panama 143.91
 Suriname 144.46
 Turkey 144.77
 Kyrgyzstan 145.21
 Lao PDR 146.09
 Malawi 148.95
 Guyana 150.17
 Colombia 150.19
 Thailand 150.51
 Dominican Republic 151.67
 Venezuela 152.64
 Myanmar 152.88
 Trinidad and Tobago 153.37
 Guatemala 154.05
 Bahamas 156.45
 Peru 157.11
 Guam 157.88
 Azerbaijan 157.89
 Zimbabwe 159.14
 Ecuador 161.58
 Greece 161.99
 Brunei 162.41
 Bosnia Herzegovena 166.98
 Paraguay 167.67
 Lebanon 169.56
 French Guyana 170.82
 Brazil 171.34
 Uganda 171.85
 Costa Rica 176.30
 Chile 176.74
 Cyprus 178.76
 Honduras 180.51
 China 180.96
 Republic of Moldova 186.03
 Kazakhstan 186.66
 Jamaica 187.83
 France, La Reunion 190.24
 Ukraine 191.07
 Cuba 192.99
 Puerto Rico 193.96
 Singapore 195.97
 France, Guadeloupe 196.86
 Russian Federation 200.48
 Japan 201.15
 South African Republic 201.99
 Albania 202.77
 Romania 205.11
 Argentina 206.25
 Montenegro 206.92
 Armenia 207.53
 Barbados 207.91
 Malta 211.35
 Belarus 213.11
 New Caledonia 218.50
 Bulgaria 219.89
 Portugal 223.20
 Serbia 224.40
 FYR Macedonia 225.07
 Poland 225.12
 Estonia 230.13
 Latvia 230.44
 France, Martinique 234.85
 Spain 241.44
 Mongolia 242.23
 Chinese Taipei 244.07
 Lithuania 244.43
 Finland 250.10
 Austria 250.58
 Sweden 259.70
 Slovakia 260.59
 Korea, Republic of 262.35
 Croatia 262.38
 Slovenia 264.80
 Switzerland 269.33
 United Kingdom 269.38
 French Polynesia 269.61
 Italy 274.31
 Uruguay 280.35
 Germany 282.06
 Luxembourg 284.02
 Hungary 286.60
 Israel 288.27
 Czech Republic 288.54
 The Netherlands 289.87
 Iceland 290.43
 Canada 296.65
 Norway 297.88
 United States of America 300.22
 France (metropolitan) 300.44
 New Zealand 309.21
 Belgium 309.43
 Australia 314.09
 Ireland 317.03
 Denmark 321.09

Source: International Agency for Research on Cancer
GLOBOCAN 2008


June 04, 2010
http://www.burrillreport.com/article-developing_cancer.html

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